Driving Rail System Digital Transformation

Driving Rail System Digital Transformation
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Fincons Group

Driving Rail System Digital Transformation

This article first appeared in the Railway-News magazine Issue 2 2022.

Fincons Group is a leading international system integrator with key experience and skills in cross-vertical system integration and digital transformation across a number of sectors including: transportation and logistics, financial services, media, energy & utilities, manufacturing, public administration and international institutions & research.

With over 2000 employees and a turnover in excess of 200 million euros, Fincons has invested resources and expertise in supporting businesses in the transport sector to achieve their innovative digital transformation goals for over 39 years.

With offices in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, the UK and the US, Fincons leverages years of experience in system integration. Our co-development alongside customers and constant scouting of new technologies means that we are able to offer scalable, professional services and resources, to guide rail networks through complex project implementations.

Megatrends like climate change, population growth and and digitalisation are shaping today’s mobility environment. Digitalisation is playing a major role in transforming the way we experience mobility. Safe, seamless, reliable and sustainable mobility is more important than ever. Rail has a key role to play in helping governments achieve sustainability objectives safety and remaining competitive and relevant for both passenger and freight transport.

In this changing environment, Fincons supports all rail businesses in their digital transformation journey with solutions:

  • for people
  • for transport
  • for digital
  • for asset
  • for freight

Case study – KV 4.0 Project

Transformation in action: the German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) digitalises the intermodal supply chain.

The digitalisation of intermodal supply chains, the ‘KV 4.0’ project, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Digital and Transport (BMDV) as part of the Modernity Fund research initiative (mFUND), aims to digitalise intermodal supply chains end-to-end, from the collection of the loading unit from the consignor right through to delivery to the consignee, making the intermodal process more transparent.

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